Non-fiction EPUBs: Terrible quality
Jan. 17th, 2012 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI don't write nonfiction, but if I did, I'd be offended at how bad the EPUB 2.0 editions of various ... For Dummies books are. I recently bought two, Genetics for Dummies and Bioinformatics for Dummies, and the translation from paper to digital is awful.
Subsection headers are frequently cut off. Images are rendered poorly, and (at least on the Nook) do not zoom. Worst of all, the index is corrupt. Although the table of contents seems to work fine, when you advance through the pages with the slider, all they ever say is "Introduction" and "There are 174 pages left in this section."
Nobody quality tested these books. Look, just because they're advanced topics unlikely to sell millions of copies does not mean you can afford to skimp on them.
Subsection headers are frequently cut off. Images are rendered poorly, and (at least on the Nook) do not zoom. Worst of all, the index is corrupt. Although the table of contents seems to work fine, when you advance through the pages with the slider, all they ever say is "Introduction" and "There are 174 pages left in this section."
Nobody quality tested these books. Look, just because they're advanced topics unlikely to sell millions of copies does not mean you can afford to skimp on them.
